Diocese of the Transfiguration of Novosibirsk
Diocese of the Transfiguration of Novosibirsk | |
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Country | Russian Federation |
Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Moscow |
Diocesan bishop | Joseph Werth SJ |
founding | February 11, 2002 |
surface | 2,000,000 km² |
Parishes | 68 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Residents | 25,910,000 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Catholics | 518,000 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
proportion of | 2% |
Diocesan priest | 19 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Religious priest | 21 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Catholics per priest | 12,950 |
Permanent deacons | 1 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Friars | 24 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
Religious sisters | 63 (2017 / AP 2018 ) |
rite | Roman rite |
Liturgical language | Russian |
cathedral | Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord |
address | ul.Gorkogo 100 630099 Novosibirsk Russia |
The Diocese of the Transfiguration of Novosibirsk ( Latin Dioecesis Neosibiriana Transfigurationis , Russian Преображенская епархия в Новосибирске ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia , based in Novosibirsk .
The diocese was founded on April 13, 1991 by Pope John Paul II as the Apostolic Administration of Siberia. On May 18, 1999, the apostolic administrations of Eastern Siberia (Siberia Orientalis) and Western Siberia (Siberia Occidentalis) were separated. On February 11, 2002, the Apostolic Administration of Western Siberia with the Apostolic Constitution Meridionalem Russiae was established as the Diocese of the Transfiguration of Novosibirsk . It is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Moscow as a suffragan diocese. The name refers to the transfiguration of Christ .
Ordinaries
Apostolic Administrators
- Joseph Werth SJ , from April 13, 1991
- Jerzy Mazur SVD , from March 23, 1998 to May 18, 1999
- Joseph Werth (SJ), second term, since May 18, 1999
Bishops
- Joseph Werth (SJ), since February 11, 2002
Deaneries and parishes
The diocese is divided into six deaneries with around 70 parishes:
- Central Dean's Office
- Novosibirsk Oblast : Novosibirsk (three parishes), Berdsk , Kuibyshev , Polovinnoe , Krasnosjorskoye
- Deanery Urals
- Sverdlovsk Oblast : Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Tagil , Severouralsk , Krasnoturyinsk
- Chelyabinsk Oblast : Chelyabinsk , Kopeisk ( Greek-Catholic parish)
- West Siberian Dean's Office
- Tyumen Oblast : Tyumen , Omutinskoye , Ishim , Tobolsk
- Autonomous Okrug of the Khanty and Mansi / Ugra : Surgut (two parishes, including a Greek-Catholic parish), Nizhnevartovsk
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (no parishes)
- Kurgan Oblast : Kurgan
- Deanery Omsk
- Omsk Oblast : Omsk (three parishes, including a Greek Catholic parish), Sargatskoye (two parishes, including a Greek Catholic parish)
- Eastern Deanery
- Tomsk Oblast : Tomsk
- Kemerovo Oblast : Kemerovo , Jurga , Prokopjewsk (two parishes, including a Greek Catholic parish), Novokuznetsk (two parishes, including a Greek Catholic parish)
- Altai Deanery
- Altai region : Barnaul , Novoaltaisk , Biysk , Talmenka , Slavgorod , Shumanovka
- Altai Republic (no parishes)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Meridionalem Russiae , AAS 94 (2002), n.10, p. 600f.